Coordinated Environmental Health Network Act of 2005
Latest action · Jul 21, 2005 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJul 21, 2005
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Coordinated Environmental Health Network Act of 2005 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to establish and operate the Coordinated Environmental Health Network. Directs the Secretary, in establishing and operating the Network, to:: (1) expand and coordinate among existing data and surveillance systems, surveys, registries, and other federal public health and environmental infrastructure; (2) provide for public access to an electronic national database on priority chronic conditions and relevant environmental and other factors; (3) operate a National Environmental Health Rapid Response Service to develop strategies to respond to and investigate higher than expected incidence and prevalence rates of priority chronic conditions and environmental exposures; (4) award grants for the establishment and operation of State Environmental Health Networks; (5) develop minimum standards and procedures for data collection and reporting for State Networks; (6) enter into a cooperative agreement with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists to train and place applied epidemiology fellows in state and local health departments; and (7) enter into cooperative agreements for the establishment and operation of regional biomonitoring laboratories.
Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish an Advisory Committee for the Network; (2) award John H. Chafee Public Health Scholarships to eligible students enrolled in an accredited school of public health or medicine; and (3) expand the scope and amount of biomonitoring data collected by CDC on environmental exposures.
Allows the Secretary to award grants to accredited schools or programs of public heath to establish and operate Centers of Excellence for research and demonstration with respect to chronic conditions and relevant environmental factors.
Cosponsors 4
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 21, 2005 to Sep 15, 2005, with 2 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NV | Harry Reid | Original | Jul 21, 2005 |
| R-RI | Lincoln Chafee | Original | Jul 21, 2005 |
| D-NM | Jeff Bingaman | Sep 7, 2005 | |
| D-IL | Richard J. Durbin | Sep 15, 2005 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 21, 2005Introduced in Senate
- Jul 21, 2005Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- Jul 21, 2005Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8667-8868)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Administrative procedure
- Agriculture and Food
- Alzheimer's disease
- Asthma
- Autism
- Autoimmune diseases
- Birth defects
- Cancer
- Cerebral palsy
- Chemicals
- Child health
- Chronically ill
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Clinical trials
- Communication in medicine
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Data banks
- Demography
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Diabetes
- Directories
- Disabled
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Electronic government information
- Employee training
- Environmental health
- Environmental monitoring
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental research
- Environmentally induced diseases
- Epidemiology
- Families
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to Indians
- Federal aid to research
- Federal-Indian relations
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Federal-territorial relations
- Genetic research
- Government internships
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Grants-in-aid
- Health
- Health information systems
- Health surveys
- Higher education
- Indian medical care
- Informed consent (Medical law)
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Local employees
- Medical education
- Medical laboratories
- Medical records
- Medical research
- Medical statistics
- Mentally disabled
- Minorities
- Minority health
- Multiple sclerosis
- Native Americans
- Nervous system diseases
- Parkinson's disease
- Pesticides
- Pollution
- Poverty
- Preventive medicine
- Public health
- Public health personnel
- Recruiting of employees
- Respiratory diseases
- Right of privacy
- Scholarships
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Standards
- State employees
- Vital statistics
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